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Stealing Children to Steal the Land
LAST MONTH, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada. This week on Intercepted: Naomi Klein speaks with residential school survivor Doreen Manuel and her niece Kanahus Manuel about the horrors of residential schools and the relationship between stolen…
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Peru on the Brink: Lame-Duck Congress Pushes Bill to Militarize Indigenous Territories
FROM THE EDITORS: Peru’s democracy is still in crisis while voters await confirmation of Pedro Castillo as president, scheduled to occur between July 19 and 20, just one week before taking office. The National Elections Jury (JNE) rejected all accusations of fraud, yet Keiko Fujimori declared that she will not accept the election results. An…
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Truth Commissions, Lessons Learned from Initiatives in Canada, Mexico, and Guatemala
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced in June the Federal Indian Boarding School Truth Initiative at the Department of the Interior to investigate human rights violations at these institutions. According to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is also expected this summer to reintroduce legislation in Congress…
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Brazil: “If we don’t die from the virus, Bolsonaro’s anti-indigenous policies will kill us”
FROM THE EDITORS: The Bolsonaro government has shown an open violation of indigenous peoples’ rights either by omission or by undermining laws and institutions set to promote these rights. After all, Bolsonaro reached the presidency with ample support from agroindustry, and his anti-indigenous speeches were already apparent during his campaign. On June 22 and 23,…
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Chile: Social Movements Break with the Orthodox Left for a Sovereign Constitutional Assembly
FROM THE EDITORS: On June 8, 2021, the Voice of the Peoples of the popular revolt to the constitutional assembly, a group of 34 (now 38) elected constituents in Chile, representatives of the ethnic, social, political, and cultural diversity of that country, published a public manifesto to announce six fundamental demands towards a fair and…
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Mapuche Weychafe Moira Millán Speaks Out Against Racism, Terricide
FROM THE EDITORS: On March 14, 2021, a group of indigenous women in Patagonia left for Buenos Aires to launch a campaign to call for the typification of “terricide” as a crime against humanity. Moira Millán, Mapuche Weychafe, who organized this action, shares with us her reasons and feelings behind the need to walk close…
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Guatemala: Freedom for Bernardo Caal and for all water defenders
FROM THE EDITORS: Bernardo Caal Xol has become a symbol of resistance in Guatemala, as well as of the criminalization of people defending Mother Earth. Caal is Maya Q’eqchi and together with his community organized a campaign against Oxec S.A., a transnational in charge of the construction of two hydroelectric dams on the Cahabón River,…
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In Their Own Words: Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc’s Press Release on Finding 215 Missing Children
FROM THE EDITORS: The remains of 215 indigenous children were found in mid-May in the courtyard of a Catholic residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia, as a product of the systematic and dedicated work of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc of the Secwepemc Nation in Canada. These children were kidnapped by Canada’s government in a genocidal…